2 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 4, 7:25 PM CST, 5 hours 20 minutes earlier.
SOUTHEAST TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 825 PM CDT FRI MAY 4 2001 RATHER IMPRESSIVE SQUALL LINE OVER W/C TX CONTINUING TO SLOWLY MOVE EAST AROUND 20 MPH. EXTRAPOLATING...WE SHOULD SEE THIS LINE MOVE IN TO THE WRN FRINGES OF THE FA CLOSE AOA MIDNIGHT. STRONG INFLOW PER- SISTING WITH VAD WIND PROFILE INDICATING WINDS OF 30-40KTS. WE WILL LIKELY SEE SOME SCATTERED TSRAS DEVELOPING OVER SE TX JUST AHEAD OF THE MAIN LINE. GIVEN THE INTENSITY OF THE ONGOING ACTIVITY TO OUR W (AND THE PROXIMITY OF THE LATEST WATCH BOXES)...AM CONSIDERING ADD- ING THE MENTION OF SEVERE TO ZONES THIS UPDATE. HOWEVER...CAPES ARE ON THE LOW SIDE AND UPPER SUPPORT MAY OUTRUN THE LINE BEFORE IT GET IN THE AREA. SO WILL SIT ON THIS A LITTLE LONGER AND MAKE THE FINAL DECISION AT PRESS TIME. OTHERWISE...GOING NUMBERS LOOK OK. 41/36/39 .HGX...SCEC FOR BAYS AND WATERS OUT TO 60 NM. PRELIMS... CLL TE 069/078 067/083 065 674 IAH TE 070/080 068/083 067 472 GLS TE 072/079 072/080 071 472
TXZ163-164-176>179-195>200-210>214-226-227-235>238-GMZ330-335-350-355 -370-375-051000- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 945 PM CDT FRI MAY 4 2001 ...LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHING SOUTHEAST TEXAS OVERNIGHT... ...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL POSSIBLE THIS WEEKEND ACROSS SOUTHEAST TEXAS... A LINE OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE EAST ACROSS THE STATE THIS EVENING TOWARD SOUTHEAST TEXAS. THIS LINE IS EXPECTED TO REACH THE WESTERN PORTIONS OF THE AREA SOMETIME AFTER MIDNIGHT. THIS LINE HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL OVER CENTRAL AND NORTH TEXAS. STRONG SOUTHEAST WINDS ARE HELPING TO KEEP THE AIRMASS OVER THE AREA VERY MOIST TONIGHT. THE APPROACHING LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM AND THE INCREASINGLY FAVORABLE WIND FIELD ALOFT INDICATE THAT THE INTENSITY OF THIS LINE OF STORMS MAY HOLD TOGETHER AS IT MOVES INTO SOUTHEAST TEXAS. THUS WE COULD SEE STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS IN THE VICINITY OF A CROCKETT TO COLLEGE STATION LINE BETWEEN MIDNIGHT AND 300 AM. THESE STORMS WILL THEN HEAD TOWARD THE COAST AND OFFSHORE DURING THE DAY. AFTER A BREAK SATURDAY EVENING AND OVERNIGHT...ANOTHER ROUND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IS POSSIBLE BY SUNDAY MORNING AS ADDITIONAL STORMS DEVELOP OVER THE HILL COUNTRY AND MOVE TOWARD SOUTHEAST TEXAS. RAINFALL TOTALS ARE EXPECTED TO AVERAGE 1/2 TO 1 1/2 INCHES WITH ISOLATED 2 TO 2 1/2 INCH TOTALS ASSOCIATED WITH THE STRONGER ACTIVITY. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME DUE TO RECENT DRY CONDITIONS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER WEATHER NEWS SOURCES FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION ON THIS DEVELOPING HEAVY RAIN THREAT. THIS STATEMENT WILL BE UPDATED BY 500 AM SATURDAY MORNING OR SOONER IF CONDITIONS WARRANT.
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 120 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 06:43 UTC.
2 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Sheriff's office reported trees down from Weimar to Columbus, and power lines down in Columbus.
Reports of trees down.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Texas in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Texas, May 2001
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5245149, 5245150.